Monthly Archives: May 2016
Man Group and American Beacon Launch New Emerging Debt Fund
(Opalesque) Opalesque Industry Update – American Beacon Advisors, an experienced provider of investment advisory services to institutional and retail markets, launched the American Beacon GLG Total Return Fund (Institutional Class: GLGIX, Investor Class: GLGPX) today. The Fund became effective May […]
Tudor Cuts Fees on Biggest Fund to Keep Investors on Board
(Bloomberg) Tudor Investment Corp., one of the oldest and most expensive hedge funds, is trimming fees as the finance industry’s highest-paid money managers face a growing backlash over their lackluster performance. The $11.6 billion firm, run by billionaire Paul Tudor […]
Man’s Osses Managing Emerging-Market Fund With American Beacon
(Bloomberg) Guillermo Osses, who joined Man Group Plc., the world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund firm, in January, is managing a new emerging-market fund with American Beacon Advisors Inc. The fund invests in currencies, local interest-rate market and foreign-currency debt […]
Hedge Fund Hutchin Hill Hires Former Third Point TMT Specialist
(Reuters) Hedge fund Hutchin Hill Capital LP is hiring industry veteran Tim Lash as a portfolio manager to oversee U.S. technology, media, and telecom investments, a source familiar with the firm’s plans said on Monday. Lash comes to Neil Chriss’ […]
A Rare Look At How Insider Trading Works
(CBS News) Roomy Khan helped the government bring down one of the world’s largest hedge funds – the Galleon Group – and send its billionaire cofounder, Raj Rajaratnam, to prison. Roomy Khan’s story reveals how she got involved in insider […]
Nontraditional Bond Funds: The Best and Worst of April
(Daily ALts) Nontraditional Bond Funds The Best and Worst of AprilNontraditional bond mutual funds and ETFs posted a second straight month of gains in April, with the average fund returning +1.39% on the heels of March’s 1.69% gains. For the […]
Hedge Funds Move Back Into Momentum Stocks
(Bloomberg) Bloomberg’s Dani Burger reports on why hedge funds are piling into the same shares that zapped their returns at the start of the year. To read this article:
The Hunt to Beat Hedge Funds
(Bloomberg) If investors want to win big in the current market, they need to be prepared to do a lot of work. Otherwise, they might as well just go to Las Vegas and try their luck at the tables.Just consider […]
Looking For Yield in all the Right Places
(Harvest) In a world of low and in some cases negative interest rates, investors continue to struggle to find yield. As such, they still find themselves in an all too familiar place: Accept less income, or take on more risk […]
Hedge Funds That Choked on Momentum Stocks Taking Another Bite
(Gulf News) Hedge funds are piling into the same shares that zapped their returns at the start of the year. They just added momentum stocks for a fifth consecutive quarter, according to an Evercore ISI analysis of 13F filings with […]
Top Hedge Fund Sees Solar Power Viability, Profitability Around The Corner
(Valuewalk.com) The naysayers regarding solar power have always made one accurate point: the technological cost effectiveness was not the same as cheap burning coal or other carbon emitting sources. Government investing in “green energy” was a boondoggle that will never […]
Denmark’s Biggest IPO in Decades Seen Feeding Currency Hedge Bet
(Bloomberg) What looks set to become Denmark’s biggest initial public offering in more than a decade may add to pressure on the krone at a time when the exchange rate is already testing levels last seen during a 2015 speculative […]